"play pretty" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "play pretties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "play pretty (plural play pretties)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Southern US English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, David Madden, edited by Dean Faulkner Wells, The New Great American Writers Cookbook, University Press of Mississippi, page 134",
          "text": "“Honey, did I ever tell you the story of the old mountain man who took the money his wife had saved for the children's Christmas play pretties and—Oh, I bet I've boiled that hen to death!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Sherry Austin, Where the Woodbine Twines: A Novel, The Overmountain Press, page 68",
          "text": "She might like to look at your pictures and your play pretties. ”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover, Penguin, page 274",
          "text": "\"I know how to scare him. My play pretties'll scare him so bad, he'll run right outta his britches.\" \"Latisha, honey,\" I said, \"we don't have time for play pretties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A toy."
      ],
      "id": "en-play_pretty-en-noun-BgxZ2aEj",
      "links": [
        [
          "toy",
          "toy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US) A toy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "play pretty"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "play pretties",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "play pretty (plural play pretties)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Southern US English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, David Madden, edited by Dean Faulkner Wells, The New Great American Writers Cookbook, University Press of Mississippi, page 134",
          "text": "“Honey, did I ever tell you the story of the old mountain man who took the money his wife had saved for the children's Christmas play pretties and—Oh, I bet I've boiled that hen to death!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Sherry Austin, Where the Woodbine Twines: A Novel, The Overmountain Press, page 68",
          "text": "She might like to look at your pictures and your play pretties. ”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover, Penguin, page 274",
          "text": "\"I know how to scare him. My play pretties'll scare him so bad, he'll run right outta his britches.\" \"Latisha, honey,\" I said, \"we don't have time for play pretties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A toy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "toy",
          "toy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US) A toy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "play pretty"
}